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Reese Witherspoon

October

Treasury Wines GM of sales and marketing, Sarah Parkes with new wine brand targeting female drinkers , Drop of Sunshine.

Treasury Wine teams up with US actor to woo female drinkers

Drop of Sunshine took two years to develop with actor and film producer Reese Witherspoon’s media company and is hitting shelves in the US and Australia first.

  • Simon Evans

May

Reese Witherspoon’s entry into the book business started with her frustration over the film industry’s skimpy representation of women on screen.

How Reese Witherspoon built a multimillion-dollar empire on books

The businesswoman’s book club may not make money from sales, but it offers an opportunity to option stories that can be turned into TV shows by her production company.

  • Elisabeth Egan

January

Even our failures can present us with a great opportunity.

How your kids can succeed – when they have no natural talent

Not every sub-par drawing or tuneless recital is a potential masterpiece, but if your child is the next Van Gogh, you’re worst placed to spot it anyway.

  • Charlotte Lytton

September 2022

Sarah Snook reacts as “Succession” wins the Emmy for outstanding drama series.

‘Succession’ takes top prize at Emmy Awards

Australian Murray Bartlett landed an Emmy for his role in “The White Lotus”.

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  • Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway

September 2021

Sophie de Rakoff, costume designer for Morning Wars.

How Reese Witherspoon’s costume designer helped her find her power

For season two of Morning Wars, costume designers Sophie de Rakoff and Debra McGuire leaned into the cast’s feminine power.

  • Lauren Sams

April 2021

Oscars 2021 red carpet. Chloe Zhao, Andrew Jackson, Travon Free, Margot Robbie

Nomadland makes history at an Oscars with a difference

Chloé Zhao’s meditation on grief and the damaged American dream, won Academy awards for best picture, director and actress at a surreal ceremony.

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  • Brooke Barnes

May 2020

Not so bright. J. Crew is likely to be the first of many high-profile US retail bankruptcies.

J. Crew the first high-profile US retail casualty of pandemic

The 73-year-old New York-based retailer was struggling to stay relevant long before the outbreak forced it to temporarily shutter all 492 of its J. Crew and Madewell stores.

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  • Abha Bhattarai

November 2019

Scrolling through TikTok is like being transported into the daily life of teenagers.

Don't get TikTok? Here's an explainer

The Chinese-owned social media app is taking Gen-Z by storm – but how does it actually work, and what do the kids see in it?

  • Anna Nicolaou
Most executives trace the start of this high spending era to 2013, when Netflix paid a premium to snatch political drama House of Cards from HBO.

The streaming wars and television’s looming car crash

As the distribution model for entertainment is remade, a revolutionary ardour has seized the industry: the choice is to win the "arms race" against the likes of Netflix, or face commercial oblivion.

  • Anna Nicolaou and Alex Barker

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